A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER RECTANGULAR TRAY

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23.03.2023 08:30 UTC -04:00
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Lot 929 | A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER RECTANGULAR TRAY
A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER RECTANGULAR TRAY

YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY

The shallow tray is raised on four cabriole feet and is inlaid with mother-of-pearl on the interior with flowering prunus branches beneath a crescent moon, all on a dark brownish-black ground. The base is lacquered in red with a signature possibly reading Huai Chuan.

12 7/8 in. (32.6 cm.) long, silk pouch, Japanese double wood box, cloth wrap





Provenance

Jean-Pierre Dubosc (1904-1988) Collection, Kamakura and Paris.

Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1992.

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 1710.



Literature

Eskenazi, Ltd., Chinese Lacquer from the Jean-Pierre Dubosc Collection and Others, London, 1992, pp. 42-43, no. 12.

M. Kopplin, Museum Für Lackkunst, Katalog Ostasiatische Lackkunst: Ausgewählte Arbeiten (Catalogue of East Asian Lacquer Art: Selected Works), Münster, 1993, p. 63, pl. 26.



Exhibited

London, Eskenazi, Ltd., Chinese Lacquer from the Jean-Pierre Dubosc Collection and Others, 8-22 December 1992.



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